The ballad about the prison of nations

After the Perestroika, the prison of nations was abolished and all 30 happy prisoners went outside.
Half of them went to freedom without harboring any doubts but another half came back the same evening. They suddenly felt uneasy and unaccustomed to the freedom after so many years of life in custody. Especially, when recalling in memory, that the guards in the last days began to behave more human-like and polite. Outside of prison, it was not so cozy. It was raining, the wind was blowing, and the late autumn promised a very cold and severe winter. In sharp contrast, all these native inconveniences are absent inside the great monumental concrete correctional facility where the environment is warm as well as cozy and the people are assigned rooms and beds for sleeping and are fed three times a day.

True, the prisoners came back only to spend the night just to escape again in the morning. In the morning however, the prison guards prepared a festive breakfast and lunch. Instead of pasta and pearl barley they offered buckwheat porridge with eggs and that is why the next evening, 12 of the remaining 15 prisoners returned again, asking to spend the night.

They were again fed deliciously and laid to sleep while the guards served them as if they were waiters, promising that this treatment will be the status quo henceforth. It is because Western countries allocated money for the purpose of reforming our inhuman penitentiary system. Soon this prison would become akin to a Swedish one where prisoners lived in comfort where everyone had their own room to watch TV, drink beer and swim in the pool.

This group began to live in prison, as if it were their home and started waiting for a magical transformation to happen, chuckling at those who had left the prison in the first place.

One morning however, when they wanted to walk outside after breakfast, they were prevented from doing so. It turned out that there was a change of command in the prison and the new director did not want to carry out reforms and instead restored the old order. These included not wanting to release prisoners after they had served their sentence. Additionally, those that were serving their sentence had additional years of detention added which almost doubled the time of imprisonment for the majority of the convicted.
After that, the penitentiary returned to its former state again and the guards began to treat the prisoners more severely than before by mocking them saying: "It was your choice, you had to get out of here when the doors were open but now you ought to stay there without harboring any discontent”.
 So the prisoners lived unhappily after, until their last days came, bitterly regretting through all the gloomy times in the correctional facility in which they once did not choose to leave for freedom appropriately when such a great historical opportunity came.